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Sunday, 11 March 2018

I am really enjoying making cards again at the moment so I have this fun 8x8 butterfly card to share with you all today. Please comment below let us know what you think, are you enjoying the tutorials?

There is plenty of time to join in this months challenge, I am looking forward to seeing all the entries, instructions for this card can be found below.

Steps

1- Cut a piece of cardstock to fit the card blank

2- Take the larger butterfly from the stamp set and using Archival ink stamps randomly over the left side of the cardstock

3- Spread three colours of Distress ink onto a mat spray with water, when spraying with water wet the inks enough that they form beads of ink but not enough to form puddles.

4- Press the cardstock into the ink and dry with a heat tool, repeat until happy with the background effect created.

5- Using the script stamp from the same set and Distress Ink, stamp along the right side edge of the cardstock.

6- Stamp the same butterfly randomly over the cardstock with glue and sprinkle with glitter, make sure to wash the stamp straight away and make sure all the glue is removed. As the glue dries a lot of the glitter will fall off, but it normally leaves just enough for a nice sparkle.

7- Die cut three scalloped circles that fit on top of each other, using the three inks from the background cover each circle, one which each colour of ink.

8- Stamp the largest circle with the same script stamp used on the background, use the small butterfly stamp on the middle circle and a sentiment and large butterfly on the smallest.

9- Attach ribbon to the bottom of the cardstock and attach it to the card blank.

10- Glue the largest and the middle circle to the card and then the smallest using foam tape, add a few gems to finish.

Sunday, 4 March 2018

Happy Sunday everyone and welcome back!Now we all know that crafters don't really need an excuse to 'play' with their crafty stash but just in case you do, why not play along with this months challenge. Our theme is easy peasy ...Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes Random winner prize: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store. Closing date for entries: 25th March, Noon. Max 2 entries per person, no backlinks. You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish... Our challenge 5 winners are at the bottom of this post.Now let's check out the inspiration from our DT. As you can see our talented team have been busy working their creative/mixed media magic for you .....

Terry: I have made a gift envelope with a small card to go with it. This small envelope was made with the fabulous papers from Polkadoodles, Just love them because it has so many fabulous butterflies and colors on it. So I cut out an envelope from a template from DD. I then cut the papers and placed them on the envelope. The borders are worked on with Distress Ink and I placed some sentiments on the card and on the envelope to finish my project.

Gemma You can never have too many birthday cards, can you? Pop back to the blog on the 11th for my step by step tutorial.

Lou Sims: I've decided to alter a phone box that I've had for eons using the following Polkadoodles products: Tropical Underworld clear stamp set, Stitched Circles dies, Scenic Landscape dies, oodles of mediums, distress inks and my pan pastels. More photos and details of products used can be found on my blog HERE ...

Julia McNeill....This
is a litttle wooden birdhouse I picked up and I painted using Yellow
and Pink Acrylic paints. I then used the new Polkadoodles Time to Bloom
Stamp set. I stamped a little detail onto the house using white Gesso,
and then stamped the little border onto the house. The bird and flowers
and stamped them on watercolour card, coloured with my zig pens and
decorated the house with them...

Jan Marshall...using Polkadoodles stamps Great Days clear stamp set
, Distress Oxides for the base, I heat embossed the flowers and then
used water colour paints, added some snips of ribbon and my tag was
ready to go ...

Julia McNeill....For
this card I started with the A4 papers from the new Polkadoodles Posy
Doodles collection and covered the card. I then cut out 3 circles from a
coordinating paper. The circles were then inked using Distress Oxide
Peacock Feathers. I stamped over using
the Special Times stamp set. I mounted it onto the card, and then used
an inktence pencil to create a shadow around the circles to make them
stand out from the page. I then added a few strips of paper from the 6x6
Posy Doodles paper. I stamped up the flowers on watercolour card and
coloured up with SN sparkle pens, shaped the flowers and then added them
to the card. The whole card was edged with distress ink Black suit. To
finish off, I grabbed the die, used it as a stencil to edge the circles
with some doodling & finally a load of white paint splattery stuff...

#58 Irena StefanovaThankyou all so much for your wonderful entries, very creative, we loved them!

Challenge #6 will run until 25th March 2018. Just add you entry below in Mr Linky and if you would like to appear as a GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add GDT after your name. The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month ...Mister Linky's Magical Widgets -- Thumb-Linky widget will appear right here!

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Sunday, 25 February 2018

Again at Love 2 Create Challenges we are extremely proud when other crafters agree to be featured as a GDT on our blog and today we are sharing a project from Guest Designer Kym Upshaw. You can check out Kym's fabulous work over on her blog - Kym's Crafty Cards

Here's a short bio about Kym ...

My name is Kym and my blog is Kym’s Crafty Cards. I have been married to my husband for 26 years. I am a mother to two boys aged 25 and 21. I started cardmaking about 10 years ago and the cards that I make I sell solely to raise funds for different charities. I love to use decoupage, toppers, rubber stamps but my first love has to be using digital stamps as you can print them any size that you want. I love to work with many different styles of rubber stamps/digital stamps eg cute, vintage, fantasy, Christmas etc and will have a try with any image to make some wonderful cards/creations so that I can sell to raise funds for charities.

Here is the fabulous card Kym created for us using Polkadoodles 'Ula - Be a Mermaid' ...

After being offered my GDT slot, I was lucky to be allowed to create with a Polkadoodles image and I chose to use "Ula be a Mermaid". I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and fussy cut around the image. I also printed off a sentiment that I got with the image, die-cut and edged with my Turquoise Pan Pastel.

For the background I used a Turquoise, Diarylide Yellow, Hansa Yellow and Pearlescent Yellow Pan Pastels to colour the background. I then used various seaside orientated stamps (greenery, driftwood, bubbles and fish) and stamped these onto the background.

I then used a Marianne designs die to make the mount for Ula the mermaid. I have finished the card off with some die-cut greenery and a die-cut shell border and individual die-cut shells highlighted with the the Pan Pastels used for the background and two large pearls.

Here is a list of the products I have used to create my card :- Promarkers used: Face/skin - Saffron, Spice and Oatmeal Hair - Yellow, Canary and Lemon Mermaid/shells etc- Duck Egg, Turquoise, Putty, Tan, Burnt Orange & Dusky Pink.Pan Pastels used: Rich Gold Diarylide Yellow Turquoise Copper Metallic Hansa Yellow Pearlescent Yellow.It's a honour to be a Guest Designer as I have followed the Love to Create for quite a few years now and participated in lots of the challenges..

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Thank you Kym for your fabulous project and we look forward to seeing more of your projects in the future both here at Love 2 Create challenges and also on your blog.

Just a quick reminder to everyone that Challenge #5 ends tonight at
midnight which means you still have a little time to add your project. All details for Challenge #5 can be found HERE.

Join us next week for another new challenge but until then ... happy crafting to you all ...,

Sunday, 18 February 2018

Happy Sunday everyone and welcome back!Today we have the winners of our last challenge but before we get to that we have another amazing creation from our Guest Designer Norma to share with you...

This week we are joined by the very talented Norma Pechir
Holland. You can check out all of Norma's wonderful creations on her
beautiful blog - Creating and Sharing It

Here is a little bit about Norma ...

Hi,
I’m Norma. I born in Mexico City, but I live in New York. Crafts have
been part of my life since I can remember. Most of the things that I
know I learned them from my mom, my life was around art because of her. She
taught me about mix media when I was 15 and even when I’m not as good
as her, I love to make some projects for my house or for my good
friends.

Below is the wonderful project Norma has created for us...

To make my project, I recycled a box of cheese, each time that I got that
cheese, I have in my mind that something is possible with that box, and
today was the day.

I used a piece of paper of the Belle Papillon Collection, that I love, some flowers from my stash and the beautiful butterflies from the same collection.

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So time for the winner, plus top 3 from challenge #4.

Remember you still have until 25th February 2018 to
enter our current challenge - details here - we'd love it if you could
play along/create with us.

As an added extra for being one of our Top 3, we would like to offer you a GDT slot on Love 2 Create challenges - if you are interested - so please emailus for further details. Please put GDT for L2C in the subject bar.Many congratulations to you all and we look forward to seeing you again at Love 2 Create Challenges.Finally before we go ... what have you been making recently? Why not pop over to our Facebook
page and share your projects with us -
https://www.facebook.com/groups/love2create - we look forward to seeing
you.

Sunday, 11 February 2018

We are very lucky today and have the very talented Nikky Hall (from Polkadoodles) sharing one her of her projects with us on Love 2 Create using a digi image called Oddella Twig to create a journal page ...

Over to you Nikky ...

I coloured this Oddella image up a few weeks back and when
I looked at it the following day I suddenly had an overwhelming urge to
make her into a journal page which I have not done for absolutely
eons...and I mean eternity eons!
So I didnt lose the mojo for her I rushed upstairs as soon as I got in
from work and decided I was only allowing the time it took for the pizza
to cook and no more - I'm trying to set myself time goals so I just go
with the flow and didn't procrastinate too much as it's killing my melon,
man ... this was the coloured image before and after ...

I just got all my fave colours out and random stamps which just
happened to be the nearest to hand which were all my textures from
Premium Art Brands and threw it all on. I did actually spritz and seal
between layers but because I was rushing they did get very muddied and I
used a lot of yellow ochre pan pastel, (which I don't normally do). Not what I was
aiming for at all but this was pizza journaling after all ...!

I just ripped the image off the paper and glued it down with photo glue
then applied all the Pan Pastel colours around it, using a Versamark
inkpad to overstamp - love using Versamark ink as they just stick to the
Pan Pastels like glue and make it so vibrant...

A bit of doodling to finish off using a black Graph'It marker which
will go over virtually anything and the must have Graph'It White Shake
marker and voila ...

WOWsers, I'm sure you will all agree that that is one fabulous journal page and unless you were told, wouldn't believe that it was a digi image and not a stamped one.

We'd love it if you became a follower of our challenge blog, not just to join in with the challenges ... which would be way cool by the way ... but to check out all the fabulous projects shared.

Happy crafting everyone and don't forget to pop over next week as the winners, plus top 3 will be announced for last months challenge. REMEMBER you still have time to enter this months challenge and all the details can be found HERE.

Before we go, what have you been making recently? Why not pop over to our Facebook
page and share your projects with us -
https://www.facebook.com/groups/love2create - we look forward to seeing
you.

Sunday, 4 February 2018

It's the start of a new month which means another new challenge at Love 2 Create Challenges. A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, (for Challenge #4) will be announced on 18th February 2018.

Just in case you have missed any winners posts, previous winners, Top 3 and GDT's can be found on our 'Winners Page' at the top of the blog.

Now we all know that crafters don't really need an excuse to 'play' with their crafty stash but just in case you do, why not play along with this months challenge. Our theme is easy peasy ...

Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes

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Our sponsor for 2018 is Nikky Hall from Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop. Have you visited recently? If not pop over now as there are oodles and oodles of new goodies waiting to be re-homed 😇😏😁

You don't have to use our Polkadoodles products to enter but we do a happy dance when you do lol. The challenge will run until 25th February 2018 so there's loads of time to play along. Ooohhhh, we must mention that we've a fabulous prize from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org)?

Prize: £5 gift voucher for the Polkadoodles store.

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Now let's check out the inspiration from our DT. As you can see our talented team have been busy working their mixed media magic for you .....

Terry: Hey there guys, for today's challenge I have made a Journal Page, with yep lots of butterflies that I made with clay, gave them a color with PanPastels and placed them onto my journal page. So the background of my Journal Page is colored with PanPastel the light colors, On top I have worked with a stencil and Light Modelling Paste. I have colored the plants with PanPastels and the dots on the background too. Last but not least I have placed a sentiment.

Just add you entry below in Mr Linky . The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month ...

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Sunday, 21 January 2018

Again, we are very pleased to welcome another Gust Designer here at Love 2 Create challenges and this week it's the very talented Norma Pechir Holland. You can check out all of Norma's wonderful creations on her beautiful blog - Creating and Sharing It

Here is a little bit about Norma ...

Hi, I’m Norma. I born in Mexico City, but I live in New York. Crafts have been part of my life since I can remember. Most of the things that I know I learned them from my mom, my life was around art because of her.She taught me about mix media when I was 15 and even when I’m not as good as her, I love to make some projects for my house or for my good friends.

Below is the wonderful project Norma has created for her GDT spot ...

To make my project, I recycle a box of cheese, each time that I got that
cheese, I have in my mind that something is possible with that box, and
today was the day.

I used a piece of paper of the Belle Papillon Collection, that I love, some flowers from my stash and the beautiful butterflies from the same collection.

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I'm sure you will agree that it is a beautiful upcycling project - thank you Norma for joining in with us at Love 2 Create challenges.

Sunday, 14 January 2018

Happy Sunday everyone and we're here to share the winner and top 3 from challenge #3. Remember you still have until 28th January 2018 to enter our current challenge - details here - we'd love it if you could play along/create with us.

Finally and by no means least, could the following please email me (Lou Sims) regarding a GDT position on Love 2 Create challenges. Please add 'GDT position' in the subject bar to ensure your email doesn't get added to the junk folder by mistake.

Sunday, 7 January 2018

Good morning everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR! We hope you all had great fun bringing in 2018, whether that was partying or even creating. As it's the start of a new year, it means another new challenge at Love 2 Create. A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's
challenge and winners, plus Top 3, will be announced on 14th January 2018.

There was a little confusion (from our end), over the winners for challenges #1 & #2 and we thank you for your messages bringing this to our attention. Winners for both challenges have been announced, double checked and can be found HERE or on our 'Winners Page'.

The long winter evenings will slowly be getting lighter but they are still a great excuse to craft, so we hope you're going to join us for challenge #4. Our theme is easy peasy ...

Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes

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Our sponsor for 2018 will still be Nikky Hall from Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop. Have you visited recently? If not pop over now as there are oodles and oodles of new goodies waiting to be re-homed 😇😏😁

You don't have to use our Polkadoodles products to enter but we do a happy dance
when you do lol. The challenge will run until 28th January so
there's loads of time to play long. Ooohhhh, we must mention that we've a fabulous
prize from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org)?

Prize: £5 gift voucher for the Polkadoodles store.

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Now let's check out the inspiration from our DT. As you can see our talented team have been busy working their mixed media magic for you .....

Terry:this time for your inspiration I made a Birthday Card. Clean and simple. I worked on the background with Distress Oxides and splashed water all over it this way the colors mix all together. Usually I work with brighter colors so this was a bit out of my comfortzone. After I dried the background with my heattool I Stamped with red ink. I used the butterflies from Nikky's stampset Bella Fleur A5 large Clear Stampset. I just love butterflies. I colored them with Panpastels and the toplayer I used is crackle accents. Last but not least I placed a happy birthday sentiment and colored them with distress inks.

Gemma: I made this beautiful box and notebook for a friend, the box is an MDF blank and the notebook was made form scratch. All the stunning papers used to decorate both are from the Polkadoodles Beau Paperie 6x6 craft paper pack.

Lou: I've decided to play with Odella Twig digi image from Polkadoodles to create a tag. Odella has been coloured with pencils but then I have triple embossed here adding additional coloured embossing powder to each layer. I was trying to go for a more aged look ...

We're all waiting here eagerly at Love 2 Create to see what you have created, so please link up below ...

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